MARIA TERESA AGNESI – L’Insubria consolata

Description

MARIA TERSA AGNESI PINOTTINI (1720 – 1795)

L’INSUBRIA CONSOLATA

Componimento drammatico in due parti

Libretto: ?

Milano, 1766

Critical edition by Holger Schmitt-Hallenberg

Includes libretto in Italian and English (translated by Chiara Marani)

Introduction by Chiara Marani

213 pages – A4, adhesive binding

Price: 120 Eur

Cast:

Insubria, soprano; Imeneo, soprano; Genio Estense, soprano; Genio austriaco tenor.

Chorus of soloists (SSST)

Orchestra: Ob. I, II; Tr. I, II; Cor. I, II; Stings; Basso Continuo.

This operatic, full-length cantata (componimento drammatico) for orchestra and four soloists was composed for the betrothal of Princess Maria Ricciarda Beatrice d’Este of Milan with Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria. The title character is an allegory of the Lombardy region, who will be consoled and upplifted by the royal couple.

For the wedding of the same couple in 1771, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would write his Serenata Ascanio in Alba, and Johann Adolf Hasse his last opera Ruggiero.

Maria Teresa Agnesi was in her time a highly regarded composer and pianist. She wrote several operas and large-scale cantatas. The present publication of L’Insubria consolata is the first modern, scientific edition of this work.